Making boxes

Apr 26, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 8 Replies

I'm sure many of us have loads of things, tools, consumables, etc., that are just sitting on shelves, in piles, on various large boxes. Basically, disorganised, likely to be damaged and, critically, unfindable.



Been taking advantage of the circumstances to use some thin ply and various bits of more or less scrap timber to make some tailored storage boxes.



For example, currently in the middle of making a box for all the precision screwdrivers I have. I didn't realise I had about twenty I have found so far!



Quite enjoyable getting real things at the end of it! Designing and developing techniques.


In message snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com, polygonum_on_google snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes

Good plan for the screwdrivers. However they will escape to locations they consider more congenial.

Construction of thin sided boxes brings to mind the trays used for imported Tomatoes back in the '60's and my Saturday morning market stall job. Triangular softwood post strengthening the corners.

My first Wolf power drill came with a *wobble saw* attachment for finger jointing.....

On 26/04/2020 09:05, Tim Lamb wrote: <snip>

Reminds me of the solid wood banana boxes I stood on to reach the scales when "helping out"* in the shop across the road when I was 9~10. And which no one wanted as ammo boxes were cheap and plentiful.

*like being left alone to handle sales for an hour or 2 :)

For slightly larger boxes (power-tool sized) and also for "custom shelving with vertical dividers" I'm keen on 18 mm shuttering ply (for lowest price) connected with biscuit joints. Cut it up with a sawboard and all the dimensions are accurate enough and the cuts straight enough that it all goes straight together without any "fettling". No need to mess around with battens/fillets at all.

If it needs to look nicer, then proper ply of course, but even shuttering ply with a bit of filler and a few coats of leftover vinyl silk emulsion does not look too bad.

"It's not the cough that carries you off ? it's the coffin they carries you off in!"

And the fish boxes used by so many gerdeners.

And tea chests.

I quite like shuttering ply - it is fine for "ordinary" level of work. But I haven't got any and that is the problem at the moment. :-(

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